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A symbolic link ("symlink") is a reference to a file or folder which may exist on the same or another drive in the system. Symbolic links allow users to create a more logical file layout, when the files themselves may be spread across multiple disks or relocated to more convenient locations.

I'd like to do a overlay of a (writable dir, mounted squash filesystem), so that writes are preserved in normal directory.
I can edit the fstab entries to add and remove overlay and squashfs entries ...

NOTE: This behaviour is observed via remote access using SSH.
I noticed that if I have moved into a directory using a symlink that I cannot use the .. entry in the directory listing to move back into ...

Is mounting an drive as NTFS folder same kind of link as doing a directory junction with mklink /j linkname targetpath?
The reason im asking this is because we are having problems with NTFS mounted ...

I have FTP with directories and I want to create a symbolic link in the FTP to other directory in the FTP.
I have directory B in path /A/B, and I want to create directory /C that is symbolic link to ...

I want to create a symbolic link between local directories and my Google drive. In other words, I don't want to synchronize it by hand. If there is a change in the directory, it should synchronize it ...

I used a windows 7 utility to delete exact byte per byte duplicate files and replace them with a symbolic link before I knew that the symbolic link type is not allowed in our corporate domain. I need ...

I used brew to install newer version of swig a shortcut to newer version is available in /usr/local/bin, although when I run swig in terminal the older version runs. I imagine I need to add something ...

I store some super large compilation of files on my external hard drive because there isn't enough space on my Macbook Pro. I would like to have them in my Dropbox as well. In this question Uploading ...

I have a number of symlinks created on my Windows 7 system. Is there a way to create a backup of all symlinks so after i reinstall Windows to restore them with one click and not recreate them one by ...

A part of our (huge) application can, as a fallback for test automation, be installed manually by developers on test computers. This means copying the contents of a folder to the target machine and ...

I use link shell extension for windows extensively, as it's a really neat tool. However every time I want to create a new folder on any partition of mine, symlink.exe asks for admin permissions. It ...

I have a 120gb ssd and it's full. I want to use bitcoin armory which is going to take up to 50gb. And even if the software is installed on my G: hard drive, the software is still downloading datas to ...

I'm using Mavericks Server at work on a Mac Pro (Mid 2010). I got the go ahead to upgrade it to an SSD and install a 4TB storage drive, as well as 32GB of RAM from 6GB.
I wanted to put the OS on the ...

I have a program that runs on a Windows VirtualBox VM, a and stores data in a specific folder. I would like to work up something like a symbolic link from this folder to a directory on a Linux server, ...

I have been trying to do symlink but It does not work. This is all it gives me after I do the command
ls -s /mnt/01A3D80750CDAFF9/Steam ~/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/Steam/
dimitri@dimitri-desktop:~$ ls ...

I have a directory with code files and executable files and I want to know how to create a symbolic link only to executable files in that directory?
I know that path-of-directory/* selects all files ...

I'm using command rsync -aAX --delete /src/ /dest/ on linux to backup data from samba share to external disk. When rsync backup symlinks for the first time everything goes smoothly, but when I run the ...

I would like to be able to use mklink without the inconvenience of right-clicking on cmd.exe and choosing "Run as Administrator". I am logged in at work as a domain user with local admin privileges, ...

I have a program installed. Doesn't really matter which.
If I double click on the executable file, it launches with no problems.
If I create a link in a taskbar or in the menu bar, clicking the link ...